New research finds that nearly two thirds of children who used to live in foster care would not want to be adopted, if IrelandÂ’'s system remains closed so they would have to sever all ties with their birth family.
New laws are due next year which would allow two thousand Irish children in the foster care system to be adopted by their families.
Although 57 per cent of former foster children agree with the idea of adoption, they would only do it if and when open adoption is also legislated for.
Helen Vaughan reports;
